Senra Systems was founded in 2023 by former SpaceX engineers Jordan Black and Benjamin Shanahan, and is based in the Los Angeles area (Torrance, California). The company tackles an unglamorous but mission-critical chokepoint in advanced hardware: the wire harness, the bundles of wiring that connect every electronic component in aircraft, satellites, missiles, drones, and vehicles. Harness design and manufacturing are notoriously manual, slow, and error-prone, and they frequently bottleneck the production of complex defense systems.
Jordan Black previously managed avionics R&D and new-product-introduction production at SpaceX, giving the founders firsthand experience of how harness delays can stall an entire program. Senra's approach pairs proprietary design software with an assembly-as-a-service model: customers design harnesses faster using Senra's tools, then have Senra manufacture them, compressing lead times and reducing defects compared with traditional vendors.
By digitizing harness design and bringing modern manufacturing discipline to production, Senra aims to remove a persistent constraint on aerospace and defense build rates. The company says it has partnered with nearly every leading aerospace and defense company, including Anduril, positioning itself as critical infrastructure for the new generation of defense hardware manufacturers.
Senra raised a $25M Series A announced in June 2025, led by Dylan Field (Figma co-founder and CEO) and CIV, with participation from General Catalyst, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, and Pax. The funding enables Senra to expand manufacturing capacity and accelerate growth in the aerospace and defense sectors. Senra's co-founders were also named to Forbes' 2024 30 Under 30 list for Manufacturing and Industry.